Gotham City Impostors THWOCKed Into Feb

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Gotham City Impostors, the bonkers-looking multiplayer from Monolith, has had a bit of a slip, presumably due to the icy weather. According to a press release (or “media alert” as a troubling number of people are now saying when saying their game has a new picture, etc), the 11th January release isn’t going to happen. In fact, it now gets no more specific than “February”, which is rarely a great sign, but could mean they’re hedging their bets.

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What I saw of the game a few months ago could best be described as ‘unfixable’. I haven’t seen such an uninspired MP shooter in quite some time. The whole game was disappointing, especially given the fact that the idea for the setting is superb.

I wish Monolith would go back to making good SP shooters for the PC – I miss NOLF…

At least you got to try the beta. I spent about 4 hours across the course of it trying to get into a game, but the godawful matchmaking system seemed broken. Gave up in disgust and decided to focus on games that actually wanted me to play them instead.

I’m sorry but you’re absolutely incorrect about Blood – I’d say it was a seminal example of the 2.5d era of shooters and I’m not really one to deploy hyperbole.
However, the beta of this was somewhat crap. Hopefully they’ll still pull it out of the bag as the idea for this is still great.

Somehow I had no idea that the guys behind Septerra Core, NOLF, and TRON 2.0 were also behind FEAR (somewhat forgivable), The Matrix Online (ummmmm…), and Condemned (WHAT!?!). For some reason I was under the impression that they went under after TRON 2.0 and hadn’t been making games since. And then I just looked them up on Wikipedia. Oh dear.

On the positive side, if Gotham City Impostors turns out well, at least their brief time making mediocre-to-awful games will be over.

EDIT: Also, I have NOLF 2 on CD but I can’t get it to run on Vista or Win7. I’ve been considering trying a pirate copy to see if it works, but I’ve been hoping they’ll put it on GoG so I can get it from there instead.

I had fun enough in the beta, when I could get into a game. But the matchmaking system was horribly broken . And although I did have fun, it wasn’t “full price AAA title” fun, it was more like “tinker around on some F2P game for a few weeks then move along” kind of fun.

And the GFWL is probably a kiss of death anyway. Shame because it’s a promising concept.